Category: Track & Field

(Photo/Troy Athletics) The track team earned 20 points on the first day of competition and 69 on day two to earn 2nd place behind Arkansas State. Hanna Cooper Staff Writer The Troy indoor track and field team posted a stellar performance at the Sun Belt Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships, earning second place Tuesday at the Birmingham Crossplex. Troy’s second place finish marked the best finish in program history, and the Trojans tallied a program-record 89 total points. Only Arkansas State with 138 points outscored the Trojans, who earned…

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(Photo/Troy Athletics) For the third-consecutive meet, the track and field team has won four event championships. Hanna Cooper Staff Writer The Troy track and field program crowned four event champions last weekend at the Camel City Invitational in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. “We started showing signs of life this week,” Director Marc Davis said. “I always look to this meet as a turning point in the season. “It’s the meet where we start to round into a good competitive place before the conference meet.” The Trojans took home a first-place finish…

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(Photo/Troy Athletics) The track team won four event titles last weekend at the KMS Invitational. Hanna Cooper Staff Writer The Troy Track and Field team claimed four championships last Sunday in the KMS Invitational Birmingham, Alabama. The meet marked the second-consecutive week that the Trojans brought home four titles.  Troy’s dominance in the men’s weight throw continued, but this time, it was Caleb Brown with the top mark of 18.61m. Edita Sklenska took the women’s 800m crown with a time of 2:13.10 seconds while Madison Kennedy and Cadi Rowe also…

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(Photo/Troy Athletics) The track team starts its season with three consecutive meets at the Birmingham CrossPlex. Hanna Cooper Staff Writer The Troy track and field team finished the three-day Samford Invitational with four event champions last weekend.  “This was a much better week than last week,” director of the program Marc Davis said. “We worked out some rust, and we just have to keep plugging away. “We had some wins and some other great confidence-boosters this weekend.” For the second consecutive week, Michael Alvernaz found himself on the podium winning the…

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(Photo/Troy Athletics)  Senior Michael Alvarnez placed first in the weight throw competition on Saturday at the UAB Vulcan Invitational in Birmingham, Alabama.  Scott Shelton Sports Editor The Troy track and field team opened its 2020 schedule at the UAB Vulcan Invitational on Saturday in Birmingham’s where the Trojans racked up a pair of individual championships at the meet.  Senior Michael Alvernaz marked his season debut with a first-place finish in the weight throw—the same competition he placed third in a year ago and won in 2017 as a freshman. Alvernaz…

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